10 Responses to “MS Office: “Word could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable””

This is the actual workaround. Make sure you perform both methods on both (if not all browsers on affected machine) explorers; 32bit and 64bit. It worked for me perfectly, after making sure I changed the internet options and registry keys for both versions and made sure all other browsers I have installed were pointing in similar if not the same directions, respectively. Just paying it forward since I found the solution just a minute ago, fixed it, restarted, and now everything is working perfectly.

One thing I noticed that the articles do not mention (if, and only if, this fix is still not working for you) is that there are two locations that need editing under the registry.
Make sure the ‘cache’ folder on both, are the same (%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Termporary Internet Files)

I really do hope, this is the last time I post, but IF i come across anything else, I will inform this thread as a courtesy. I know I would have appreciated it if this error happened to me, which it did and anyone who was helping, didn’t leave anything out, which is what happened in my case scenario, unfortunately.

I’ve been having a similar issue except it stems from not being able to open in Protection View mode.

If you don’t mind losing that extra layer of protection you could try disabled Protection View security settings for word under Options->Trusted Security Settings. While that did work for me that is not an option I can settle on.

For windows 10 open Registry editor….click HKEY_CURRENT_USER…….click SOFTWARE….Click Microsoft….click Windows…click CurrentVersion….click Explorer… click User Shell Folders……click on History and copy its address and then click on Cache and paste the History address here…….now open the word i hope it will not give this error …. it worked for me.